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order authorising such entry and inspection. Provided also that the
medical officer or authorised person gives without reasonable delay notice
in writing to the medical officer of the county.
Every dairyman and persons in his employ must give reasonable
assistance to the medical officer or authorised person or veterinary
surgeon as may be required, and in default are liable to a fine not exceeding
£5.
If dairyman fails to show cause why such order as aforesaid should
not be made, the Council may make the order and forthwith serve notice
of the facts on the Local Government Board, and if the dairy is situate
outside the county, on the county council of the administrative county and
the council of the borough or district in which it is situate, the said order
to be forthwith withdrawn on the council or medical officer being satisfied
the milk supply has been changed or is not likely to cause tuberculosis in
persons residing within the county.
Any person supplying, after such "Order" has been made, any milk
in contravention, he is liable to a fine not exceeding £5, and a daily
penalty not exceeding 40s. if the offence continues.
A dairyman is not liable for breach of contract if such breach is caused
by an order aforementioned.
Council may, if they think fit, repay any dairyman who has appeared
before them pursuant to any notice the whole or part of the expenses
reasonably incurred in attending.
The Council shall simultaneously with the service of a notice furnish
any dairyman free of charge, or in the case of a dairy situate outside the
county, then on the county council of the county in which the dairy is
situate, a copy of the reports of the medical officer and veterinary
surgeon.
Sec. 26.—Gives power to appeal of (a) dairymen within the county;
(b) within the City of London; (c) outside the county.
Sec. 23 —Penalty for selling milk or suffering to be sold milk of cows
afflicted with tuberculosis of the udder is a sum not exceeding £10, and
any person is liable.
Sec. 29.—Any person, the milk of whose cows is sold or suffered to be
sold or used for human consumption, who, after becoming aware that any
cow in his dairy is suffering from tuberculosis of the udder, keeps or